Amid Exit, Hu Jintao Faces Mixed Legacy
With outgoing president Hu Jintao kicking off the 18th Party Congress by addressing a number of the challenges facing China and the Communist Party, and with Xi Jinping preparing to take over as China’s top leader, The Associated Press reports that the debate over Hu’s legacy has already ...
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Hu Jintao has been a colorless authoritarian apparatchik either unable or unwilling to engage in any significant political reforms. Difficult to find much of a positive legacy for Hu, though he did work to ratchet down the tensions across the Taiwan strait that Jiang Zemin had previously stoked. Perhaps a D effort overall for Hu, compared to a D-minus effort for Jiang Zemin.